10 Apr 2024, 03:23 UTC≈1,090 views9 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Forwarded from @livingtruth
A Summary
"The only important things in life are the traces of love we leave behind when we leave." - Albert Schweitzer
Dear Friends
Advaita the non-dual path is not for everyone. In Advaita, there is no essential difference between God and man or anything else, but rather their essential identity. But who can accept this? This nondual-way, as my teacher said, is the final way, all other ways remain in duality and…
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7 Mar 2024, 14:04 UTC≈1,080 views2 reactionsread 7 August 2026 The witness of the phenomenal world
"Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness." - Leonardo da Vinci
Physical and worldly affairs
The body is just like the world. The world seems to appear, the world seems to prevail, and then the world seems to disappear. Your body seems to appear, your body seems to prevail, and then your body seems to disappear. Yet what does this have to do…
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24 Feb 2024, 06:55 UTC713 views6 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Photo
The Awakening to Reality is the End of Suffering
"According to the Advaita philosophy, there is only one thing real in the universe, which is called Brahman; everything else is unreal, manifested and manufactured out of Brahman by the power of Mâyâ. To reach back to that Brahman is our goal. We are, each one of us, that Brahman, that Reality, plus this Maya. If we can get rid of this Maya or ignorance, then we becom…
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9 Feb 2024, 14:29 UTC677 viewsread 7 August 2026 The primal root-Thought - Part II
“The Soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.” - Marcus Aurelius
Pleasant and unpleasant Desires - "I" and "mine"
As this revolving wheel flashes upon the ego, as the reflections of likable and unlikable things are perceived through the senses, desires are engendered in the mind: desires to contact and obtain things which are pleasant and likable and desires to escape an…
31 Jan 2024, 04:01 UTC464 viewsread 7 August 2026 The primal root-Thought - Part I
“Ego judges and punishes. Love forgives and heals.” - Anonymous
I and mine is done by me
Why does the mind not abide in the center ? What causes it to emerge again into external consciousness ? The first answer is that by its very nature the mind tends to be externalized. Secondly, it is prevented from abiding in its center by the irresistible momentum of the primal root thought “I…
18 Jan 2024, 06:38 UTC476 views2 reactionsread 7 August 2026 The Self has no shape, no form and no identity
It is the I, or the thinker, or the knower who has to be eliminated. For in reality there is absolutely nothing to know. If you are all-pervading, omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, what else do you want? You've got everything. You are everything. So when you try to know something, you're making a grave mistake. This is a very important point.
Remember this.
In Adva…
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11 Jan 2024, 15:29 UTC422 views0 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Operation of subtle Impressions
Just as seed is sown in the soil, so the impression of every experience is made on the mind. These impressions of experiences are “alive”. They have in them the direct power to recreate the entire experiences which caused them in the first instance. (In fact, each impression seeks a repetition of the corresponding original experience.)
Now, desire always tends to gain strength whenev…
31 Dec 2023, 01:52 UTC491 views2 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Forwarded from @livingtruth
Love all, Serve all
“Do not imagine that sitting with eyes closed alone is meditation.” - Amritanandamayi Ma
Be kind to all. Love all. Never hurt the feelings of others. Be one with all. Destroy clannishness. Serve all. Respect all. Share with others whatever you possess (physical, mental and spiritual). Take the whole world as the form of Narayana (Anekarupa-rupaya vishnave prabha-vishnave). Bow before the world a…
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8 Dec 2023, 03:37 UTC566 views2 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Forwarded from @livingtruth
Nishkamya
“The first step in spiritual life is to have compassion. A person who is kind and loving never needs to go searching for God. God rushes toward any heart that beats with compassion-it is God’s favorite place.” - Amritanandamayi Ma
The perfect ruler
What is Nishkamya - It is a form of bhakti or devotion to God without seeking any favor. It is selfless service, the highest form of Love to God. It is the es…
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4 Dec 2023, 02:50 UTC465 views4 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Photo
It is false to speak of realisation.
What is there to realise? The real is as it is, ever. How to realise it? All that is required is this:
We have realise the unreal, i.e., regarded as Real what is unreal. We have to give up this attitude. That is all that is required for us to attain Jnana.
We are not creating anything new or achieving something which we did not have before. The illustration given is this:
We d…
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25 Nov 2023, 02:29 UTC492 views3 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Vedanta
"God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true.
The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You may say there are many errors and superstitions in another religion. I should reply. Suppose there are. Every religion has errors. Everyone thinks that his watch alone gives the correct time. It is enough to have y…
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21 Nov 2023, 07:16 UTC432 views2 reactionsread 7 August 2026 The Mind, the Tiger and a Deer
A Satsang with sri Ramana Maharshi
Mr. Evans-Wentz asked a few questions. They related to yoga. He wanted to know if it was right to kill animals such as tigers, deer and so on and use the skin as a seat for the yoga-posture (asanas).
Bhagavan: The mind is the tiger or the deer.
Devotee: If everything is illusion, can one then take life?
sri Bhagavan: Who has the illusion? That is w…
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